Upholstery covering



Nov. 17, 1953 Y. wAss ETAL UPHOLSTERY COVERING Filed NOV. 2l `1950 INVENTOR. VON/VE AND E19/VE 7' WASS WASS ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 17, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE UPHOLSTERY COVERING Yvonne Wass and Ernest Wass, Rochester, N. Y. Application November 21, 1950, Serial No. 196,883

In the home, chairs and other forms of upholstered furniture will get soiled in use; and also frequently are covered with slip-covers. the slip-covers hide` the color and beauty of the original upholstery.

The primary object of the present invention is to prov1de an upholstery covering for car seats,

itself readily be wiped oi and kept clean.

Other objects of the invention will be apparent hereinafter from the specification and from the recital of the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is a perspective view of a chair having an upholstery covering made according to one embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view on an enlarged scale of the covered seat of this chair;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 .is a corresponding section showing a modification of the invention; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged section showing the welt used in the modication of Fig. 4.

The chair shown in Fig. 1 has a base I0, uprights I I forming arms, a back I2 and a seat base I3. The covering of all the upholstered parts of the chair may be made according to the present invention. The construction of this covering is illustrated in detail, however, only in connection with the covering of the seat.

This covering comprises a conventional upholstery covering I5 (Fig. 3) and a transparent plastic outer covering I6. The inner and outer coverings I5 and I6 are sewed or fastened on the seat simultaneously.

'I'he welts I1 along the edges of the seat may be formed as shown in Fig. 3 by Wrapping the inner upholstering covering I5 and the outer plastic sheet I6 around a core I8 of cotton or other suitable material and sewing the inner and outer wrappings about the core as denoted at I9.

I6 are then sewed together about the core I 8 as denoted at 20 (Fig. 5). When such welts are used, the top T and the sides S, and the bottom material I5 and a piece of outer transparent plastic covering material I6. The welts Il are then sewn between adjacent inturned edges of the top, side and bottom covering sections, as shown in Fig. 4, by stitches 2 I.

The transparent plastic material used must be clear, to show up the desired inner upholstery covering; and it must be flexible so as readily to be sewn in place over the inner covering and around the welts. Any suitable plastic may be any type fabric or material conventionally employed for upholstery covering. By sewing this plastic covering in position during the covering of the upholstery, it will be held taut and thereby the conventional covering material may be seen through it, thus preserving the richness and eye-appeal of the inner covering.

While the invention has been described specifically in connection with a covering for a piece of furniture, it will be understood that the invention is applicable, as stated, to converings for automobile seats, and the like. Moreover, in cases where it is desired to cover furniture, that is already in use, with a slip-cover, the slip-cover may be made according to the present invention tions of the invention following, in general, the 2. An upholstered article of furniture comprinciples of the invention and including such prising a supporting base, and a covering strucdepartures from the present disclosure as come ture applied to a surface portion of said base, within known or customary practice in the art said covering structure comprising a sheet of to which the invention pertains and as may be 5 woven fabric and a sheet of transparent polyapplied to the essential features hereinbefore set vinylchloride resin of substantially the same area forth and as fall within the scope of the invenas and secured to the rst sheet around the tion or the limits of the appended claims. edges thereof, and means forming a welt stretch- Having thus described our invention, what we ing the twov sheets of the covering structure claim is: 10 smodshly across said surface portion of the base 1. An upholstered article of furniture comand securing said edges of the covering strucprising a supporting base, and a covering struci ture to said base.

ture applied to a surface portion of said base, Y YVONNE WASS,

said covering structure comprising a sheet of ERNEST WASS.

woven fabric and a sheet of transparent thermo- 15 Y plastic material of substantially the same area References Cited m the me of this patent as and secured to the rst sheet around-triel edges UNITED thereof, and means forming a welt stretching STATES PATENTS the two sheets of the covering structure smoothly Number Name Date across said surface portion of the base and se- 20 379,208 Cosper Mar. 13, 1888 curing said edges ofthe covering structure to' said 1,314,408- Lewis Aug. 26, r1919 M 2,563,316 De syiva Aug. '1, 1951 

